* I'M GONNA BARKERIZE THE HELL OUT OF THIS POLITICO PIECE!
* * * * * *
With the federal government nearing shutdown, House
Speaker John Boehner stood on the House floor Monday and called on his
colleagues to vote for a bill banning a “so-called exemption” that lawmakers
and staffers receive for their health insurance.
“Why don’t we make sure that every American is treated
just like we are?” Boehner asked, seeking to prohibit members of Congress and
Capitol Hill aides from getting thousands of dollars in subsidies for their
health insurance as they join ObamaCare-mandated insurance exchanges.
Yet behind-the-scenes...
THE DETAILS ARE NEW; THE STORY ISN'T. I DISTINCTLY RECALL
NOTING RIGHT HERE ON USUALLY RIGHT THAT BOTH PARTIES - THEIR LEADERSHIPS AT
LEAST - WERE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO AVOID PERSONAL AND PERSONAL STAFF
FINANCIAL HITS FROM OBAMACARE.
Boehner and his aides worked for months with Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.),
and others, to save these very same, long-standing subsidies, according to
documents and e-mails provided to POLITICO.
* BOEHNER - SCUMBAG.
* REID - SCUMBAG.
* HOYER - SCUMBAG.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was also
aware of these discussions, the documents show.
* MCCONNELL - SCUMBAG.
During a five-month period stretching from February to
July, Boehner and his aides sought - along with Reid’s office - to "solve"
what had become a big headache for both of them. They drafted and reviewed a
possible legislative fix, as well as continued to push for an administrative
one from the Office of Personnel Management.
Boehner aides insist there was never any intention to
move legislation through the House to correct the problem. McConnell was also
opposed to any legislation approach to the controversy, said spokesman Don
Stewart.
* ARE THEY BRAGGING ABOUT THIS...?!?! WHAT'S THEIR
POINT...?!?!
Boehner and Reid, however, went so far as to ask to meet
with President Barack Obama to lobby him personally for help — using a cover
story in order to protect the secrecy of the discussions, according to these
documents.
* UNFRIGGIN'BELIEVABLE...
* OBAMA - SCUMBAG.
Although the Oval Office session with Obama never came
off, a senior Boehner aide spoke directly to White House Chief of Staff Denis
McDonough about the speaker’s desire to retain the employer contribution for
lawmakers and staff.
* RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU BELIEVE MCDONOUGH WOULD HAVE MADE
A MOVE ABSENT OBAMA'S DIRECT APPROVAL.
The issue of whether lawmakers and staff will continue to
receive the employer contribution from the federal government — estimated at
between $5,000 to $12,000 annually — has become political kryptonite on Capitol
Hill. As part of the Affordable Care Act, lawmakers and aides are required to
join insurance exchanges that begin operating on Tuesday, the same day the
government shut down.
* AND FOR THE EXCHANGES... SUBSIDIES ARE ON A SLIDING
SCALE! (MEANING WELL-PAID WASHINGTON INSIDERS SHOULDN'T BE ELIGIBLE FOR
SUBSIDIES SUPPOSEDLY GEARED TO "THE LESS FORTUNATE."
OPM initially ruled that lawmakers and staffers couldn’t
receive the subsidies once they went into the exchanges.
* KEEP READING...
Under heavy pressure from Hill Democrats, Obama and top
White House aides got personally involved in the dispute. OPM then reversed
course and issued a regulation saying the subsidies would go on.
* THIS IS OBAMA... THIS IS THE DEMOCRATS... THIS IS
BOEHNER... THIS IS THE RINO ESTABLISHMENT... (AND SOME OF YOU DISLIKE THE TEA
PARTY...?!?!)
Boehner, however, injected the issue into the
government-shutdown debate by attaching a measure to end the subsidies to a
House GOP funding bill, which Senate Democrats adamantly oppose.
Boehner’s aides vehemently deny that the speaker’s
private efforts contradict his public statements on the issue.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
They insist Democrats were the ones who enacted ObamaCare
and it is up to them to address the problem.
* I SEE NO PROBLEM! DOES ANYONE SEE A PROBLEM...?!?! THIS
IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS WANTED! THIS IS WHAT THEY VOTED FOR! LET THEM LIVE UNDER
THEIR OWN CREATION...!!!
Boehner said the White House should correct the problem
though through an administrative solution...
* AGAIN... THERE IS NO PROBLEM THAT I SEE! LET THESE
BASTARDS PAY OBAMACARE EXCHANGE RATES SANS SPECIAL POLITICAL DISPENSATION! LET
THE POLITICIANS AND THEIR PERSONAL SYCOPHANTS GET NO MORE BENEFIT THAT MARY
AND I WILL SHOULD WE CHOOSE TO JOIN AN OBAMACARE EXCHANGE!
“We always made it clear that the House would not pass
any legislative ‘fix,’” said Michael Steel, Boehner’s spokesman, on Monday
night.
* BECAUSE YOU WERE GOING FOR A POLITICAL FIX BEHIND THE
BACKS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, YOU PIECE OF GARBAGE...!!! (AND YOU GOT IT! FROM
OBAMA'S OPM!)
“As POLITICO has previously reported, Speaker Boehner was
aware that Sen. Reid and the White House were discussing this issue. He was
always clear, however, that any ‘fix’ would be a Democratic ‘fix.’ His ‘fix’ is
repealing” ObamaCare.
* I TRULY DO WISH BOEHNER WOULD DROP DEAD.
* BUT, FOLKS... THAT SAID... IT WAS BOEHNER AND REID...
BOEHNER AND OBAMA...
* FOLKS... IT'S TEA PARTY AMERICANS WHO ARE OUTRAGED AT
SUCH DESPICABLE BEHAVIOR REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S "THEIR"
REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS TAKING PART! IT'S ANTI-TEA-PARTY REPUBLICANS AND
DEMOCRATS WHO DEFEND SUCH BEHAVIOR FROM "THEIR OWN."
But according to several sources in attendance at a
mid-July meeting with Reid, Boehner wondered aloud at one point whether he and
the Nevada Democrat could quietly slip some language into a bill to end the problem
without it receiving any public attention.
* IT WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME...
* BOEHNER - SCUMBAG.
“When I was in the state legislature, we used to stick
things in [bills] and no one would notice,” Boehner said during a private
meeting with Reid in July to discuss this issue, the sources said.
* THAT'S POLTICS AS USUAL FOR ALL YOU SCUMBAGS! THIS IS
WHAT THE TEA PARTY IS FIGHTING AGAINST! THIS IS WHY NO BILL SHOULD BE LONGER
THAN FIVE, TEN, PERHAPS TWENTY PAGES... AND LESS WOULD BE FAR BETTER!
(The speaker and his chief of staff, Mike Sommers — who
was at that July 17 meeting as well — cannot “recall the Speaker making such a
comment,” Boehner’s office said.)
* BOEHNER AND SOMMERS ARE PROBABLY LYING.
(*SHRUG*)
In mid-July, as Boehner and Reid were trying to schedule
a private meeting with Obama on the super-sensitive topic, the speaker’s top
aide said it was okay to use a cover story to conceal the true nature of that
prospective White House gathering. “We can’t let it get out there that this is
for [Boehner] and [Reid] to ask the President to carve us out of the
requirement of ObamaCare,” Sommers told David Krone, Reid’s top aide in a July
17 e-mail obtained by Politico.
* IN A JULY 17 EMAIL OBTAINED BY POLITICO!
“This is a little bit more difficult because it isn’t a
routine meeting, as Pelosi and McConnell won’t be there. I am even ok if it is
the President hauling us down to talk about the next steps on immigration.”
* SOMMERS - SCUMBAG.
After Krone suggested that the White House press office
might float that the Boehner-Reid-Obama meeting was on immigration, Sommers
said he wasn’t concerned about what cover story was just as long as the real
reason behind the meeting wasn’t disclosed.
* KRONE - SCUMBAG.
“I really don’t care what is is about[,] it just can’t be
about what we know it is about!” Sommers told Krone.
That meeting with Obama never took place.
* WHO CARES IF IT TOOK PLACE! OBVIOUSLY OBAMA APPROVED
THE FIX OR ELSE OPM NEVER WOULD HAVE REVERSED ITSELF!
* OBAMA - SCUMBAG.
* MCDONOUGH - SCUMBAG.
* HEAD OF OPM (WHOMEVER HE OR SHE IS) - SCUMBAG.
Boehner and Reid’s offices also circulated some draft
legislation to fix the problem, although none was ever introduced. They
considered — briefly and “not seriously,” according to the speaker’s office —
making all House staffers part of the “Committee of the Whole” in order to get
around the insurance-exchange requirement. Committee staffers were not required
to enroll in exchanges.
* THESE PEOPLE ARE AMERICAN'S LEADERS? BOEHNER? REID?
OBAMA? AND THE TEA PARTY IS THE PROBLEM...?!?!
Boehner and Reid’s staffers also discussed
“grandfathering” all members of Congress into the Federal Employee Benefit
Health Plan, their current insurance program, so they didn’t have to enroll in
the ObamaCare exchanges. That idea was eventually dropped as well.
Boehner’s office said the leak of private e-mails to Politico
shows how concerned Democrats are about the matter.
* NO. IT JUST SHOWS THEY'RE PLAYING CHESS AND THEY'RE
PREPARED TO SWAP QUEENS IF NECESSARY!
When asked to comment on the Reid-Boehner interaction on
the hugely controversial issue, a Reid aide said the Nevada Democrat worked
closely with Boehner on it and was grateful for his help in "resolving"
the matter.
* YEAH... I BET HE IS...
“Senator Reid appreciates Speaker Boehner’s cooperation
and tireless efforts to work through this difficult issue,” said Adam
Jentleson, Reid’s communications director.
The topic of lawmakers’ health care has gotten only more
intense since OPM’s regulation was released. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) recently
introduced legislation to block the subsidies, a move that infuriated
Democrats. On the House side, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) offered similar
legislation.
* VITTER - GOOD GUY!
* MCCAUL - GOOD GUY!
* WHERE ARE THEIR DEMOCRAT COUNTERPARTS...???
Boehner and his top lieutenants — Majority Leader Eric
Cantor (R-Va.) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — wanted to attach a
provision to prohibit lawmakers, staffers and executive-branch officials to a
debt-ceiling bill.
* HUH...??? (DOESN'T ANYONE EDIT THIS CRAP...?!?!) I'M
ASSUMING THEY MEANT TO WRITE "...TO PROHIBIT LAWMAKERS, STAFFERS, AND
EXECUTIVE-BRANCH OFFICIALS FROM TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE OPM REVERSAL.
* IF SO... TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. PROPOSING THIS AFTER
GETTING CAUGHT...? WHO DO YOU CLOWNS THINK YOU'RE FOOLING...???
* BOEHNER - SCUMBAG.
* CANTOR - SCUMBAG.
* MCCARTHY - SCUMBAG.
A group of Boehner’s House GOP allies went privately to
the speaker to complain about the move, saying it would hurt them and
especially their staffers.
* "PRIVATELY." SCUMBAGS.
But as they struggled to move successive continuing
resolutions to fund the government, Boehner decided to attach the McCaul language
to a government funding bill on Monday night. The measure passed the House with
12 Republicans voting against it. The Senate then quickly rejected it on a
54-46 party-line vote.
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